Any recommendations on a combination, or perhaps an Auckland based supplier as for once I'd like to pickup this as a pre-configured unit and just drop my HDs into it.

Reliable at a reasonable price for 24/7 use.

Steve

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat New Zealand as a Solution Architect for all things Linux, Virtual and of course Cloud. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

I guess it depends what budget you're looking at... I was looking on a real budget recently and was considering the following combination. (In the end I decided I didn't need that many HDDs so went for an even cheaper case)

Case: Bitfenix Shinobi - I think with HD Expander it should house 12 or so HDDs. Apparently thermals aren't great out of the box, but toss a couple of extra fans in and it's all good.

Mobo: Asrock B75 pro3-m - 8 Sata ports, 4 Ram slots, USB 3.0 and cheap. And I knew I'd probably never want to overclock on home server and lack of RAID didn't bother me as I rely on greyhole.

CPU: I guess you'll want to go i5 for quad core but I just went with a cheap pentium G645 since I didn't need much grunt in the server.

sidefx: I guess it depends what budget you're looking at... I was looking on a real budget recently and was considering the following combination. (In the end I decided I didn't need that many HDDs so went for an even cheaper case)

Case: Bitfenix Shinobi - I think with HD Expander it should house 12 or so HDDs. Apparently thermals aren't great out of the box, but toss a couple of extra fans in and it's all good.

Mobo: Asrock B75 pro3-m - 8 Sata ports, 4 Ram slots, USB 3.0 and cheap. And I knew I'd probably never want to overclock on home server and lack of RAID didn't bother me as I rely on greyhole.

CPU: I guess you'll want to go i5 for quad core but I just went with a cheap pentium G645 since I didn't need much grunt in the server.

Thanks for the motherboard tip. the B75 chipset looks like quite a good bet.

Problem is finding an appropriate case as a lot of places only seem to stock fancy gamer cases.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat New Zealand as a Solution Architect for all things Linux, Virtual and of course Cloud. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat New Zealand as a Solution Architect for all things Linux, Virtual and of course Cloud. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

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